Helen Grayco - "If That's How Nature Made Him," 1976
I read about this song in an article in Billboard magazine, from October 1976..the article is shown in the video. First, no, the record was not the "first gay ballad" or gay anything, but I was still interested.


Took me six years to track down a mp3 of it, and then that was only via posting a plea for it on Facebook and Rex Strother asking music maestro Bob Moke it he had it, he did indeed, even sent me label scans. By the way, the record did not chart on Billboard or Cashbox, but when it was re-issued on a different label it did in December 1977, made it to #90.


Of course from producing the radio show Queer Music Heritage for 15 years I'm all about obscure gay songs, and this one was surprisingly progressive for it's time. Helen Grayco had not really done any recordings for about 20 years and is mostly known as having been married to Spike Jones.


My website www.QueerMusicHeritage.com has over 580 hours of archived LGBTQ music.



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